To the editor: Visitor contributors Dana Cuff and Christopher Hawthorne point out the “Small Heaps, Large Impacts” jury they sat on (“Let’s Los Angelize L.A.,” July 9). That mission title appears significantly apt while you have a look at the images of the 2 successful designs: tall, cumbersome, outsized packing containers squeezed onto small tons in established single-family neighborhoods. The writers keep away from any sensitive particulars comparable to already crowded streets, lack of parking, worsening drought and water provide points, and getting old, failing infrastructure already harassed by our present inhabitants.
They point out comparisons to Manhattan, a 23-square-mile island. The town of L.A. is an space of greater than 500 sq. miles with no lifelike hope of a ample mass transit system in sight. We’ve got woefully insufficient public park area even for our present inhabitants and inadequate price range assets to completely right-size and adequately equip our hearth and police departments and even repair our harmful, crumbling sidewalks.
Politically incorrect as this can be, in what universe does it make sense to cram much more vehicles and other people into this already overcrowded metropolis?
Kathy Reims, Los Angeles
